LESSON TWELVE                                                

Third Monad and Stream Cycle

As we enter the third Monad story and Stream Cycle let us return to the sacred Vangelo Delle Streghe, physical creation story.  It would be best to deliver this creation story as Chancellor Don Lewis presents it. The First Priest’s words regarding creation and the seven planes of existence based on the Vangelo.  For the next several minutes allow these blessed words to refresh and revive you.  And as we move though the myth, be what is expressed through the words.

Written in Chancellor Don Lewis’ First Degree Book:

First Monad

1) “Diana was the first created of all creation.  In Her were all things.”  In other words Diana or Goddess is Primeval Deity.  She existed before the first beginning, as Chaos –God without form existing in a void, and having within Herself the seeds of all things, both spiritual and material, all mixed up together without order or definition.  Primeval Deity is androgynous, having both feminine (spirit or yin) and masculine (matter or yang) elements, and sometimes portrayed as such in myth and artwork.  Sometimes however Primeval Deity is portrayed as feminine, since we think of Primeval Deity in association with the Goddess, or Spirit-indeed as the Higher Self of Goddess.  In this sense Primeval Deity is identified with the Crone Goddess –the Goddess in Her aged state, having existed from before the dawn of time.  This is the wisest and most knowing part of Goddess, the most commonly called Hekate.  This is the Goddess portrayed with greater or lesser respect as the Hallowe’en witch, with Her pointed hat and broom.  

2) For endless eons Primeval Deity existed in this amorphous and undifferentiated state, in the darkness before the first creation.

3) At first She slept, aware of nothing, resting and recharging, gathering Her energies and merely being –alone and complete in Herself.

Second Monad

4) But over the course of time, Primeval Deity began to stir:

5) To become aware.

Third Monad

6) First She became aware of Her own existence.

7) In time She began to think, to dream, to question –to desire.

8) She wondered; “What would it be like to feel?”

9) What would it be like to move?

10) To take action?

11) To be able to receive sensation?

12) To see?

13) To hear?

14) And so for eons Primeval Deity thought, and considered and wondered.

15) And then:

Fourth Monad

16) “Out of Herself, the first Darkness, She divided Herself.  Into Darkness and Light She was divided.  The God, Her brother and son, Herself and Her other Self, was the Light.”  Primeval Deity divided Herself –One became Two.

17) All of the physical, tangible, volatile parts of Primeval Deity went into the God, who was the Light.

Fifth Monad

18) The God exploded into existence out of Primeval Deity in a shower of sparks and flame which we remember as the Big Bang, the starting point of physical creation.

19) All of the spiritual, ethereal, eternal parts of Primeval Deity remained in the Goddess.

20) In this sense Goddess is thought of as a continuation of Primeval Deity, since the consciousness of Primeval Deity is one of the Spiritual parts that remained with Her.

21) And the God spread out in all directions through the primordial void, a blaze of light and superheated matter.

22) In time His fire would cool into Stars, and from stars to Planets.

23) As this happens the vibration of the matter slows, it becomes more dense seemly solid.

24) This slowing, cooling, and solidifying, is described as “Falling into Matter.”

25) Symbolically the God is described as having fallen into Seven Planes of Existence.  Some people say there are more, but then the divisions are not as exact as all that, so the number is not so important as the concept.

26) “And when Diana saw that the light was so beautiful, the light which was Her other half, Her brother the God, She yearned for it with exceeding great desire.  Wishing to receive the light again into Her darkness, to swallow it up in rapture, in delight, She trembled with desire.  And this trembling was the first dawn.

Sixth Monad

27) But the God’s light fled from Her and would not yield to Her wishes.  He was the light which flies into the most distant parts of heaven, the mouse which flies before the cat.” 

28) Seeing the beauty of the God –that is, of the physical Universe, the Goddess was entranced with desire, and wanted it back.  She had dreamed of seeing and tasting and doing, but being separate from the God She could do none of this.  She could only observe from outside that which She had created.  The Goddess wanted the experiences She had dreamed of, and so She desired to take the created Universe back into Herself.  But it wasn’t that easy.

29) The Vangelo tells how The Goddess went to the oldest part of Herself, Primeval Deity –Who was still within Her.

30) The Vangelo calls Primeval Deity “The Mothers and Fathers who were before the first creation,” emphasizing Primeval Deity’s androgynous aspect.  In other words, the Goddess consulted Her own Higher Self.  In many ancient myths –notably the story of Demeter and Persephone- this same process is shown as the Goddess entering Hekate’s cave to council of the eldest and wisest part of Deity.

31) In the Vangelo Diana asks Primeval Deity how She could reunite with the God –how could Spirit take Matter back into itself?  And the Ancient One, Primeval Deity, the Goddess’ own Higher Self, answered in this way; “To rise You must fall.  To become the greatest of all Goddess’, You must first become a mortal.”  I other words it was not possible for Spirit simply to take Matter back into Herself.  If the Goddess wished to reunite with the God, to be one with Matter and experience it, She had to enter into the physical world.  Only in that way could Goddess and God reunite.

32) And so Diana “fell” –that is to say She descended through the Seven Planes to the Physical.

33) She did this by dividing off parts of Herself –the many souls- which She sent into the Physical, placing them into physical forms.

Seventh Monad

34) Each soul was to lead many lifetimes, going through many physical forms in the process.

35) Reading this now, you are one of the lifetimes of one of those souls, which are part of the great Goddess.  We are Her children, and also children of the God, for our existence is the accomplishment of their union. 

36) The Vangelo describes this process in extremely symbolic terms.  It tells how Diana took the form of a cat (the soul entering into material form) and in this way got close to the God, then resuming Her own form, made passionate love to Him.

37) Then to maintain the Union of Spirt and Matter, the Goddess cast a spell; “She sang a charm, and Her voice was as the buzzing of bees.  And then Diana sat at Her spinning wheel and began to spin the thread of life, and the God turned the wheel.”

Eighth Monad

38) In other words, having placed soul into matter, the Goddess used the power of “sound” –that is Vibration- to set the Universe as we know it into motion.  Energy is what holds all things together, from sub-atomic particles to the very galaxies of stars.  The Vibration of that energy, is movement –sometimes described as “Frequency” –is what makes it work, and determines on what level it works.  The denser or more physical a thing is, the lower its Vibrations or frequency is said to be.  The more spiritual the energy, the higher it’s Vibration becomes.  Vibration is comparable to sound, which can be a powerful magical tool.  For this reason the Vibration of the Universe, at differing frequencies through each of the Seven Planes or spheres, is often described as the Music of the Spheres. 

39) Music and song have long been used in many spiritual traditions as a means of affecting the Vibration of energy.  Sound can be used in this way to disperse negative or unfocused energy, to break down psychic blockages, and to create or affect specific energetic forms.  Sound is a very powerful tool precisely because sound or Vibration is the very force the Goddess used to set the Wheel of Life into motion.

40) Called, the Goddess spinning wheel in the Vangelo dell Streghe, the Wheel of Life is a very ancient concept.  It is represented annually by the sacred Wheel of the Year.  From this Wheel, the Goddess (Spirit) spins the thread of life –i.e., determines it’s nature, qualities, the lessons to be learned and the things to be done and accomplished.   The destiny, if you would.  But the God (Matter or more precisely physical experience) turns the wheel.  As Goddess is the nature of life, the God is the process of living –the movement through the Planes of Existence.  The Goddess is the essential nature of the Universe and life itself, She provides the Divine Spark which animates all things.  But the God carries that spark forward.  The God is Lord of Space and Time – masters of the temporal universe.  In this aspect He is called Lord of the Dance, for He leads the dance of life, facilitating experience and growth. 

41) In this way –their essence originating from the Goddess, their ability to move and to grow originating from the God, the many souls descended to the physical Plane.  The goal of this, as stated above was to experience; to learn and grow.  Having arrived in the physical the souls set out to learn all that the physical Plane could teach them, and then began their ascent back up through the Seven Planes to ultimately rejoin with Goddess, from whence they come.  Each Plane has its own special lessons, which are of great importance to the soul. 

Ninth Monad

42) Though seemly separated from the Goddess, each of these souls remain always attached to Her, always part of Her –for it is through them, as part of them, that Goddess entered into Her own physical creation, the God.  We are one with the Goddess, and our experiences are Her experiences.  We are eternal and immortal as souls, never cut off from Goddess, or Spirit, only differentiated.  All of the powers and abilities of Goddess are within us and at our command, if we can clear our vision enough to see and access them.

43) Descending through the Planes of Existence was like going through a curtain, or Veil.  The Veil obscures our vision of the things above us.  Because of the Veil we forget that we are part of the Goddess, that we are spiritual beings experiencing the physical, and start to think that we are simply physical beings.  As we ascend the Planes, we are highly aware of those Planes which are below us, and perceive them fairly easily.  It is much harder to perceive the Planes above us.  It is hard for us to see or communicate with the higher Planes of consciousness, and easy to imagine that what our eyes perceive is all that exists.  To progress we must part the Veil and see beyond it.  The more we work magically and psychically, the thinner that Veil becomes.  Some people are born with the Veil already very thin – these people are said to be born old.  It may seem that who are Born Old don’t have to work as hard to progress, that psychic and magical skills just come naturally to them.  This is because they have already done the work to develop these skills in previous lifetimes.

44) It is generally said that we are currently on the Mental Plane, able to easily perceive mental, emotional, and physical energies, and that we are –and have long been- in the process of moving into the intuitional Plane, and thus have increasing perception of what we might loosely call psychic matters.  Though we have some perception of the Planes beyond this, it is difficult to see very much of them from our current perception. 

45) Of course as in all things there are a variety of points of view on the subject of the Planes, or Spheres of Existence.  This is the Correllian view: 

46) Wicca perceives the conscious mind as only a small part of a much larger being, originating from and eternally connected to the Mother Goddess.  Our conscious self is normally a reflection of our physical body (1st Dimension), our emotions (2nd Dimension), and our thinking mind (3rd Dimension.)  These three dimensions of our being are said to compose our “Lower Self.”  It should be understood that the term “lower” refers to vibrational frequency, and not any sort of value judgment, as all parts of the being are good and valuable, the lower vibrational frequency, the greater the physical density on this reality.

47) As humans we normally have a natural comprehension of these three aspects of our Lower Self, accepting them without question as an obvious component of our being.  We all know our physical body and its’ reactions.  We feel our emotions, conscious and sub-conscious.  We are all aware of our cognitive and rational facilities.  All of these are within our level of common experience and are known to us, if not always fully understood.

48) Above our level of common experience is our Higher Self, like the Lower Self has three levels of being.  Immediately above our common perception is the “Astral self,” (4th Dimension.)  Also called the “Casual self,” the Astral self is the part of us which determines what things we choose to experience in a given physical life, and what lessons we are trying to learn.  It is from this level that the Higher Self creates the life we are living.  The Astral portion of the Higher Self sets the pattern of life, accepts or rejects every potential event in it, and can make whatever alterations the Higher Self chooses, at any point during the life.  This is one reason it is important to be on good terms with our Higher Self, because by moving in synch with its’ choices we make life a much easier process.  The Astral level, also sometimes called the Intuitional or Buddhic level, is the level that we shift to when we work magic.

49) Above the Astral is the Egoic Self, or Soul (5th Dimension.)  The word Soul is often used to describe the whole Higher Self, but specifically refers to the 5th level of the being.  The Soul is the separate personality of the Higher Self, built up of the total experiences of many, many lifetimes.  All of the benefits of every life lived, the outcome of all lessons learned, the knowledge of all things seen, felt, and done, is retained in the Soul, and gives it its’ special character which is distinct from all other Souls.  The Soul is the organ by which the being grows, the manner in which experience and growth is retained and built upon. 

50) Above the Soul is the Monad.  The term Monad comes from the Greek Monas, meaning “single unit.”  The Monad is the portion of the Soul which is perfect in itself, just as it was when the Goddess divided it off from Herself.  The Monad is a separate portion of the Goddess, but is essentially the same intelligence with no differentiation.  The Monad is individuated but not differentiated from the Goddess, and contains all of the attributes and qualities of the Divine while at the same time being separated unto itself.  The Monad is the motivating force of being. 

51) Because of this the Monad moves always to the good, and is incapable of doing otherwise.  The Monad is a perfect Microcosm of Goddess, and remembers the time of the first creation, when all was One.  The Monad also remembers the reason that it was separated off from the Goddess and because of this has a natural desire to evolve and unfold until it is One with the Goddess again.

52) These three parts form the Higher Self, of which we only become aware through effort.  The Astral self which creates our life as we live it, deciding and arranging all that happens.  The Soul stores all of these experiences and is shaped by them.  And the Monad, the Divine part of us which sought those experiences and revels in them, but which also seeks eventual union with the rest of Deity, and a return to the primordial Oneness.

53) The final level of being, above the Monad, is the Goddess Herself (7th Dimension.)  She is the single Soul of the Universe from whom all others ultimately come, and She is the very center of your being.  All of creation branches off Her, through the medium of the God.  Goddess is the life, God is the living, Goddess is the essence, God is the manifestation.  Every aspect of creation is endowed by both Goddess and God, and all is sentient in the higher levels of its being, if not always in the physical.”

54) We just saw how God fell through the planes of existence then we saw Goddess fell through the planes of existence and we fell through the seven planes of existence.  That Goddess needed us to reunite with the God.   She needed us to experience what She dreamed and desired.  And has called everything living to once again return to Her bosom. 

55) Let us return to the third Monad now that we have a clearer understanding of where it is within our seven planes of existence.  The Monad in which we belong resides within us below the Divine plane of existence and above the Soul. 

56) In the creation of the Monads, Goddess sought to reunite with the God and to experience the wonders of the material world as well as returning the Universe into integrated whole again.

57) In creating the first Monad, Deity tried to understand being physical.  But alas the first Monad was incapable of making practical applications of the collected information, though she understood the information. 

58) In creating the second Monad Deity tried to move forward with the understandings found by the first Monad into more active experience.

59) The Second Monad was to move abstract ideas into useable practical applications, but was bogged down by the first Monad.  Consequently the third Monad called Tritoneira is all about action, and focusing on experience.  It is the third Monad that Goddess’ desires for physical experience is beginning to finally become realized actualized.

60) Tritoneira is all about growth, and expansion she is brilliant, inventive, energetic and hard working.  All that Protoneira had conceived and Deuteroneira had nurtured Tritoneira literally manifested and blossomed. 

61) Tritoneira launches systems into motion that deal with Being.  Once the system is up and running she sets up supportive to further expand the main system. 

62) When Goddess saw that Her first Avatar could not understand active practice.  She created Deuteroneira to assist.  But Protoneira rejected Deuteroneira’s assistance, and fell into an impasse.  Deity created a third Avatar from Herself, Tritoneira, hoping she would take what was conceived and nurtured and move systems into reality. 

63) These Souls are great communicators.  They take others’ systems and ideas and thoroughly understand how to set ideas into motion and highly original approaches to accomplish this task. 

The Tritoneiran Soul can take systems that stump others and find many new applications.  Boiling this Monad personality into one sentence, She forms manifestation in practical terms of which others could only dream.

Note: As you can see most creation related statements were assigned a quatrain numeral for easier referencing as this teaching continues.  Now let us discuss the third Monad cards.

Third Monad Cards

In Chancellor Don Lewis 40th quatrain he states the following:  “Above our level of common experience is our Higher Self, like the Lower Self has three levels of being.  Immediately above our common perception is the “Astral self,” (4th Dimension.)  Also called the “Casual self,” the Astral self is the part of us which determines what things we choose to experience in a given physical life, and what lessons we are trying to learn.  It is from this level that the Higher Self creates the life we are living.  The Astral portion of the Higher Self sets the pattern of life, accepts or rejects every potential event in it, and can make whatever alterations the Higher Self chooses, at any point during the life.  This is one reason it is so important to be on good terms with our Higher Self, because by moving in synch with its’ choices we make life a much easier process.  The Astral level, also sometimes called the Intuitional or Buddhic level, is the level that we shift to when we work magic.”  This is what the Third Monad emphasizes, that all Monads experience all planes of existence. 

Third Monad Tarot Cards

The Lovers

The lovers’ card reveals a high achiever very goal oriented.  This individual is excellent developing important large projects.  At the other end of the spectrum this card can reveal a ruthless opportunist may be in your life, thus it is crucial to keep your eyes open and handle this situation quickly before this person gains any more ground within your life. 

Depending on the cards shown around this card it may show a seemingly agreed bond between two individuals that may be antagonistic toward each other.  Depending on the question, you have decided to have a reunion with someone or group and are willing to accept all its possible consequences, at least for now. 

The Tarot of the Bohemian Deck shows a young man standing at the crossroads where he is deliberating which path to take.  The Marseille nor the Waite, Rider Smith deck does not show this road.  However now you know there is a crossroads in this card’s energy, and now that you know which road will you take? 

The winged being above the two humans; some refer to this winged being as the spirit of justice or a spirit Master Guide helping these two beings become stripped of all things earthly for a moment so that they may gain insight into both perspectives.  The winged being can mean that when two sincere humans communicate with authenticity their efforts birth something new into the world that was created by their harmony.  Some say this is cupid, aiming its arrow right in the back of this very young man.  The 1865 Bohemian Deck then translated later in 1892 by Morton makes it clear this is not a pleasant card but a card of antagonists harshly trying to strongly influence this lad.  This is a card that can give hope, suggesting to come together to discuss things or it can be suggesting to stay away from such drama until both sides can speak with no hidden agendas.   As you can see this card seems to have both the eye of light and the seeds of discontent.

Some interpret this card as one woman represents vice while the other represents virtue.  No matter where humankind is, it never escapes the all seeing-eye.

Regarding the third Monad, this card depicts the first two Monads are sharing what they have discovered, what plans they have created and what they have done relating to the physical world.  This card represents the third Monad taking in good information, all the while knowing there is an arrow at her (the Monad) back and both antagonism and good motives are coming through where she must divide the useful and un-useful information.  This card is for information collecting. 

Notice the three beings form an upward triangle depicting the power within the threefold law and light. 

The Hanged Man

In the Bohemian Deck this man’s hands may be tied behind his back which forms the upside down triangle, with his head the point.  His leg is loosely tied to a gibbet that is resting on two columns.  This card has been described as, “Look what happens to the presumptuous.” Not a pleasant ending.  So this card has both wisdom and fatality.  These two columns show up all through the Tarot, yes another key.  His right leg crosses his left leg thus forming a cross as we have discussed before this leg crossing is in other cards as well.  The two trees are the same columns of life that he must decide which to select; this is also found in the Juggler card and the Lovers’ card where the two women represent these two columns.  It is interesting that the reversed triangle and a cross above it is the alchemical sign of personality or the Hermetic sign for the Rose Cross.

The third Monad enters the physical world with grand expansive moves that is caused by divine expansion that produces a meaningful unfolding, unlocking the barred doors, swinging them wide open just as the world card reflects.  Introduces the concept of Unity, balance and harmony are all completely different yet all unfold the same stellar movement of humankind. 

Notice each tree has markings showing there were six tree limbs that were cut off on each tree.  These absent limbs can have many meanings depending on the question and the cards around it.  Regarding the third Monad these missing limbs mean 12 is reduced to 3 in numerology representing discontentment or unbalance pushes one to consider unity, balance and harmony.  The missing branches served a good purpose and even though they seem they have gone, the golden spirals still glow in our darkest hour and sustain us with their living energy and memory.  One night I took a picture of a tree where a tree limb was cut off.  The marking did not seem fresh.  When we all looked at the picture of this marking where a tree branch once lived in the physical, there on the picture we saw a single golden spiral composed of two lines of lighted streams coming out of the tree and positioned in an angles as if the branch was still there!  It was truly a special night for us to see this.  Try this some time at night and see if this happens to you as well.  The reason why I say it may be best to take pictures of trees at night is so you can see the light against the dark easier, if the Universe allows you to take a peek behind the physical objects.  Remember this card represents the Fool in his transformation.  Regarding the third Monad, there is much more to consider than the obvious to help the world reveal its spirituality, even the missing parts that have been cut away are not really gone. 

The Sun

Tritoneira is most certainly the most determined of all the other Monads, thus the Sun card reflects this characteristic.  Tritoneira is a highly efficient planner, though may move too swiftly where she may ignore rules or make sloppy mistakes.  Tritoneira is usually in an alliance with the forth Monad and second Monad, sometimes taking on their work out of love for them.  The Marseille card shows two boys standing inside a walled enclosure, where the Waite Rider Smith Deck has a toddler that may be either male or female riding a white horse.  Transitioning from the material world to the Divine through Tritoneira is essential to renew the physical body through motion.

Judgement

Where does judgement fit in?  This card is clearly saying it is our time to jump into the living springs of life and to do that there must be movement. 

The motivator card, this person utilizes communication to reach their goals.  Understanding how words can create motion.  When the astral world sees itself it moves to the next plane through pure spiritual vibrations.  Notice one card everyone is in a box possibly floating on a body of water, while the other card only one individual is inside a box and the other two individuals are standing in a body of water.  Some interpret these boxes as coffins and they are resurrecting to heaven.  Others see this yes as an ascension but more like an awakening that we are all ready to step out of our physical boxes and recognize all this time we have been living in the astral world designing our physical world and now see what we have created there and pulled everything into our tiny physical box.  Now we know we are bigger than what we create, we now know we have never been inside a small physical world but all this while we have been the winged ones flying and creating in the astral and here in the physical.  Now we see our wings, now we see more and will utilize more to create more bridges and rainbows across every sea.  Regarding how this card relates to the third Monad, I think I just did. 

The Devil

In the Waite Rider Smith Deck two humans with tails stand before a seemingly part human male part animal.  In the older cards it is clear that this figure is part human and part animal, yet the decks show this being with breasts, denoting it is both female and male.  The two shackled figures are much more animal than human.  Also notice the Egyptian ankh of Isis hanging from its belt or the symbol of female with the horned god moon above.  As well as a tattoo on each arm, one saying Coagula and one tattoo reading Solve.

The performer is highly adaptable and motivated.  Wildness expressed after one releases oneself from his own shackles.  You see the devil standing on a solid cube, which possibly represents this individual, is more interested in matter over spirit.

With closer inspection we see the Devil’s gesture is the same as the Fool card, but in reversed.  The Fool holds the wand where the Devil lights the wand on fire, which means action. 

The two figures are the same in meaning as the two women in the Lovers’ card, the trees supporting the gibbet in the Hanged Man card and the two columns in every card contains the same meaning, which is, walk through, walk past these columns,

Regarding the third Monad this energy appreciates the wild things in life, all of nature including the human animal, discovering dominion over matter, taking care of nature not trapping or misusing her.  Running wild and free in the forest or across an open field releases appreciation for the natural world filled to the brim with wilderness growing seemingly out of control while the animals enjoy their day running through the forest with you. 

As you gaze on these figures, this Monad is expressing, “What is wrong with this picture?  Why are animals being tied down so that they are not able to run free?  See the leash around their neck?  What in your live is keeping you from running with the wind?  What is it?  Or is this leash a person, or a belief you have about yourself.  The first two Monads trapped their own selves into non-movement, this card is saying, ask what stops you and remove it.  No one can remove your obstructions but you. 

Sometimes this card is called the dragon at the threshold, thus this card says pass by this dragon, take a closer look at this dragon, it is dazed and confused and only receives its strength and power from you.  Unplug and see this energy collapse on its own self. 

Third Stream Cycle

3--Sleepwalking:  Individuals that are in the sleepwalking stage look like they are awake however have a one sided dialog many times when having conversations with others.  They only hear their self and do not listen to the other person in the conversation.  This is why when asked, “What did she say?”  They can only offer general impressions and conclusive statements based on their own thoughts.  Some sleepwalkers do not realize they are behaving badly, toward others, they think they are helping yet in fact they may be harming a situation or they may walk on others not knowing they are truly unkind in the moment.  Locked in their own story and do not realize they have hurt other individuals.  The sleepwalker will never admit wrongs, giving a million reasons why they behaved in such a poor manner to others.  At their best they speak truths yet do not completely understand what they are saying and they know the truth they are espousing is not fully actualized within their own life.  A sleepwalker moving out of this stage strives to integrate into their own lives what they have been taught, so that they will experience, firsthand the truths they hear others share with each other’s experiences.  They begin to become more aware of individuals’ authenticity.

A single attachment may be about something, that needs to be addressed and the way to remove this attachment is to help someone else fulfill their needs.

The seven planes of existence fits nicely with the Monads and Stream Cycles, approaching them from the lowest up:  This cycle heightens the effects of the physical, emotional, mental, astral, Soular or egoic levels.  Through the Monadic and Divine, all the planes of existence and stream cycles are experienced by every Monad. 

Sleepwalkers are not quite there for you, you can tell they are not fully there or listening to you.  Sleepwalkers seem to sustain some memory of their awake moments and begin to realize there is more to life.  Aware of reality but cannot live it fully become life spectators.  They can help others however cannot stay in connection with others for long.  You see what needs to be done, but cannot re-trace the process back to your life map, figuring out the map by the bits of memory.  This is why the Tarot is one on several ways that helps you see your life map. 

Third Stream Cycle Tarot Cards

All the Page cards represent the Sleepwalker Stream Cycle.  All are within their own isolated worlds. 

Page of Swords

The blustering winds are blowing all things awake.  A cluster of birds fly directly over his head representing thoughts that carry everything into manifesting.  The clouds flying across a blue sky depicts conscious thought pushing him to come out of his sleep.  This Dream walking stage is exciting because this is when you become aware there are other states of being or at least begin to get glimmers of other states through thought.  The mountains remind us it takes much time to see there is no time and all things here on this plane are temporal.  This Daydreamer is at water’s edge ready to plug into another wider reality.  Always looking over his shoulder for the unexpected event or illness and if he does not pay attention of where he is going he will find himself inside a rushing river current, maybe waking him before he chooses. 

Page of Wands

The three pyramids show up again on barren land in this card, equating to the third Stream cycle, they are all the same size and are lined up in a perfect line.  Ancient wisdom is next to you, three living things that are ready to be entered yet once again ignored by the Sleep walker.  This Page finds himself in a desolate place because he is still sleeping, but now he begins to see opportunities to awaken.

Lizards adorn this Page’s dress encouraging him to ground and ask, “What do you know?” ask, “What do you have in your own awareness to walk out of this dream?  The red feather of life is attached to his hat which is sitting on his head.  Holding a living wand with both of his hands, he is holding the only seemingly living green thing in his own hands in the desert.  Folks that are in dream they think they are alone. 

Page of Cups

The querent or Sleepwalker sees that something is not right here.  This card shows a fish out of water, looking directly at the Page.  The Sleep walker is now beginning to wake up because he sees things around him that does not make sense any longer to him.  This is one of the first signs of a person realizing he is in a state of dream and sleep and that he sees he is able to push through the dream or veil, or pierce this reality by waking up in this dream, even if it is just for a few seconds in the beginning.  The fish could be conveying, “This is not my home, please allow me to jump into the lively river a mere foot away, just like you.”

Page of Pentacles

The Page of pentacles sees the worth of the physical it has helped us learn so many invaluable lessons while being our movable props as we moved through this physical plane and reality system, that all along was a construct designed by our own dreams.  Now is time to admit this is only one place we live and learn, we arrive here for a few short hours each day while we spend our being outside time in thousands of spaces and places.  Most of our time is spent outside time, not in this reality where we live under one giant yellow flaming star and millions of other points of light.  Now that you know, how will you live?

We are all capable of waking up from the Sleepwalking state, even if it is just in our night dreams.  Why do you think some Wiccans place a pentacle on their altar?  It is a reminder we are just visiting here for a moment and we hold all elements and are spirit.

We are not reading these cards for divination, what happened in the past?  What will happen in the future?  We are reading these cards through the story of the Monads with which one you belong.  We are reading these cards as if reading a life changing story revealing your story and depending on what Monad lens and Stream cycle lens you are seeing through is what you will reveal and receive. 

Third Monad Correspondences

Key Concepts: The Pursuer and the performer

Planet: Jupiter

Virtue: Sincerity

Muse: Erato , the name means  “Beloved” or “The Lovely”  She holds the flowers of love in her hands.  Her parents are Zeus and Mnemosyne.  Muse of erotic poetry.  Possibly a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan.

Animal: Bear

Numeral: Three, individuals at their worst, can be a martyr and or an enabler at their best, they are nurturing individuals.

Chakra: Solar Plexus   (yellow)

Zodiac Signs: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius